15 November, 2015

PARIS, I APOLOGIZE

I offer my deep-felt condolences on the irreparable loss of
lives, the crippling injuries and the mayhem that some barbarians created in
your city yesterday. I share in your sorrow most sincerely, and wish the
bereaved members fortitude

It is alleged that IS barbarians are responsible for this
ghastly act. I believe it to be true. Hence I apologize to you and to all
humanity – not just as a cultural Muslim but also as a fellow earthling – for
not being able to protect your innocent citizens, for letting things come to
this pass, for letting such barbarism take roots amongst ourselves.

Yes, I know that those who killed must have ‘a rationale’, ‘a
justification’. I know that they would bill this barbarism as a revenge for
their ‘oppression’ by the coalition forces.

To be frank I concede that they were not, nor any such act ever
is, born in a vacuum. Each has a raison detre of its own. I know, too, that the
savage plunder of Iraq, the dishonouring of its sovereignty and the continued
honouring of its villains by their respective nations must have provoked and
continues to fuel this clash of civilizations.

Yet, I firmly denounce the approach and the method of those self-proclaimed
avengers, even if their cause were true. To be sure every action has had a
cause, a reason. The crusades had theirs. Mehmood Ghaznavi had his. VHP has its
own. Bush and Blair had theirs. Osama had his, too. Baghdadi definitely has his
justification for his unspeakable crimes.

The civilized world has evolved consensus on how to avenge
injustice. In any case any act that harms the innocent is patently unjust.
Hence this vicious cycle must stop. Here, and now. And forever.

I denounce this barbarism, against your children, women and men,
Paris, unequivocally, unconditionally and with full conviction.

Indeed, I hereby
offer my cooperation – of whatever worth it is – to the authorities dealing
with such issues. And this includes fighting the IS in any way I can, and
working with the agencies anywhichway they consider me worthy of.

If Muslims cannot unequivocally,
unambiguously and without any 'if's' and 'buts' squarely condemn this dastardly
attack even on this day they are nothing but apologists.What did France do lately to deserve this? What did Europe did? Provide a
shelter with open arms to your migrants that your Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
refused to accommodate?Germany's football team it was that was playing France when your cowards killed
the Parisians. You forgot Germany's open arms policy towards your Syrian
migrants so ungratefully, so swiftly?If IS was such an attractive proposition why didn't all these migrants instead
go to it? It would have got a ready army! Why don't you seek to join them
rather than postulate peace from your havens in these very democracies.Alright, France did participate in the coalition to attack IS. Didn't we all
ask them to do so? Didn't you feel impotent in controlling the devil's
expansion? Didn't IS pose threat to the Muslim nations?I refuse to belong to you. Not this day.